Books & Talks
April 26, 2013 | by Jonathan Zwickel

'Buzz' by Robert Zverina

Buzz is an imperfect novella about an imperfect character, an equation equally elegant and frustrating. As an experiment in literary pop quasi-memoir, it fails until it succeeds, at which point you’re probably invested in seeing it through. Its purposeful brevity works in its favor—by its end Buzz...

Events

June 4

Khaled Hosseini

Venue: Town Hall
May 9, 2013 | by Lillian Nickerson

Matt Gano's Debut Book 'Suits for the Swarm'

Seattle poet Matt Gano’s debut book of poems Suits for the Swarm is evidence that judging a book by its cover is not always a bad thing. The book’s cover shows a...
April 28, 2013 | by Lillian Nickerson

Short Run Presents Eamon Epsey

The folks at Short Run small press festival put on their first satellite show on Thursday at Hugo House and proved to the packed audience that shadow...
April 26, 2013 | by Lillian Nickerson

Slammaster Daemond Arrindell

Daemond Arrindell has been the Slammaster at the Seattle Poetry Slam for eight years. During his tenure there he has brought in featured poets from around the...
April 26, 2013 | by Elissa Ball

Recipe

Pinch some salt, press it into my center.  Let me rise ’til I’m ready. Flop me onto a butcher’s block. Powder the wood with flour. Turn me over and over and...
April 8, 2013 | by Lillian Nickerson

National Poetry Month Kicks Off Around the Sound

National Poetry Month kicked off this past Friday in Seattle and Tacoma with two readings for new anthologies of area poets. On Capitol Hill people filled Hugo...
March 25, 2013 | by Lillian Nickerson

March through APRIL

For lovers of literature, piñatas, drag queens and/or booze, APRIL festival will not disappoint. Seattle’s second-annual small-press fest (APRIL stands for Authors...
March 25, 2013 | by Jonathan Zwickel

Creative Class

Whether or not you have a kid in school, the future depends on arts education. The morning bell at Northgate Elementary cuts through the din of 250 students...